Tag: Law Enforcement
1203: Paul Schofield

Paul Emerson Schofield was a corrections officer at Jefferson City Correctional Center in Missouri. He and his wife pled guilty to “one count of conspiracy to produce child pornograph and one count of producing child pornography” according to the Department of Justice. The child they sexually assaulted was under twelve during the three years the pair abused them to produce child sexual abuse material. There was a video of them sexually assaulting an unconscious four-year-old child. The DOJ press release is much more detailed.
1199: Thomas Garrett
1192: Robert Austin

Robert William Austin, a Florida Department of Corrections chaplain, was caught in an undercover sting. Police created several false identities on social media. Austin sent messages to one of those false identities thinking he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl. He sent her explicit pictures. The day “he was arrested he happened to tell the “girl” that he was going fishing. The police worked with Fish and Wildlife, found him where he was out fishing, and arrested him there.
1186: Michael Tobin

Michael Tobin was a police officer in Clarksville, Iowa. He was accused of showing sexually explicit images and videos from a criminal case to a minor from September 2021 to February 2022. The minor reported it to police in March 2022. The city fired him and in September 2022 he was arrested and charged with 3 felonies and 8 misdemeanors. In October 2023, he was convicted on all charges.
1181: Justin Durham

Justin Bradley Durham is a former Sheriffs Deputy in Phelps County, Missouri. He was arrested and charged with sexually exploiting two minor girls and recording it, creating and possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was also charged with altering and destroying records to try to cover up his crimes.






